Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Oh, how I love orchids! When I create them out of sugarpaste, I love the process of creating each petal over the course of the week, dusting them with petal dust, putting them together and then finally placing them on the cake.

The very next morning, I received this email from the bride, "Thank you sooo much. You truly outdid yourself this time! That cake was STUNNING!! People
couldn't stop talking about it! The orchids?!! Oooh la la!!!!
A-ma-z-ing!" That sure made my day... actually, it made my week! I love what I do!

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

A couple years ago, I had the pleasure to create a cute cake for a girl who loves dogs - she was turning 6 at the time. Last year, she turned 7 and I made her a cute puppy cake. This year for her 8th birthday, I made her little chihuahua, Coco, in a Chanel purse!

The cake is alternating layers of strawberry and chocolate cake. Even the little dog is made out of cake.

Friday, July 13, 2012

Happy Friday everyone! As promised from my Tuesday blog post, this is the follow-up of the Classic Pooh Bear cake. I remembered to take some photos along the way with my iPhone.

Step 1: The Cake: The cake was 4 layers of 6" round chocolate sour cream and vanilla bean cake. I placed these on a cardboard cakeboard in the shape of the bottom and legs, so I can transfer it onto the bottom fondant covered cake tier.

Step 2: Carve while looking at your inspiration. Usually I have photos on the wall showing all angles of my inspiration, but this one was a little easier with the bear.

Step 3: Use leftover large cake pieces to fill in the head. I actually had 2 nice pieces from the mid-body that I was able to use.

Step 4: Ice with thin layer of buttercream. I used a thin coat of chocolate swiss meringue buttercream and put in the fridge for about an hour. Not the exact shade of bear, but tasty!

Step 5: Add thicker coat of buttercream. Then I added in a thicker layer all around and just used the palette knife to make it look like fur. I also made sugarpaste ears which I then iced with buttercream. I used a a lighter shade of buttercream (less cocoa) for the feet and ears. The eyes, nose, paws and ear details were made out of fondant.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Last week, my daughter Sidney turned 1! Ever since I did this wonderful Classic Pooh cake, I knew that the theme for her party would be Classic Pooh. We read lots of the Pooh books and every morning she gives her Pooh doll, Bear, a big hug.

We had a wonderful family BBQ with fabulous weather, a visit to the park and enjoyed the sweet table.

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Another 1st birthday cupcake tower for the blog this week. The color theme was purple and green for the party and I could create whatever design I wanted. I came up with this sash-like design for the cupcake tower and the rest of the cupcake tower fell into place.

A view from the top of the tower. See you Tuesday for some more 1st birthday Sweet Things, I'll be posting photos of my daughter's 1st birthday sweet table.